Despite mockery from liberal groups, recent evidence suggests that warming predictions often cited by alarmists should be ratcheted downward given that global temperatures have been flat for about the last 15 years.

The Economist reported that “temperatures have not really risen over the past ten years” and that “[o]ver the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat.”

“Since 1998, there has been an unexplained ‘standstill’ in the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere,” BBC News reported in May.

The UN’s climate authority predicted global temperatures will rise rise by as much as 3 degrees Celsius in the short term, but other research from Europe cast some doubt on this estimate.

UK scientists reported that global temperatures would only rise between 0.9 degrees Celsius and 2.0 degrees Celsius, and Norwegian scientists found that the earth may warm only 1.9 degrees Celsius.

“The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before,” Dr. Alexander Otto of the University of Oxford told BBC News.

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